Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

obsproject.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

301–310 of 371 posts

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

#301

Post by cycloptic »

rvz wrote: post #300
cycloptic wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The Linux ecosystem needs a standard and unified API or SDK for its desktop endeavour In my opinion, this is incredibly unlikely to happen any time soon. The closest existing thing to that is building web apps targeting Chrome and Chrome OS. If that's not your thing, then I would advise against operating on the assumption that there will ever be a unified SDK. At least for me it's gotten easier to understand and wor…

Maybe ChromeOS could do since it is the closest to this idea. But distro-wise, if that's the case then the second last sentence in my previous reply is an unfortunate tautology which doesn't look good for those who just wants work done or needs to reproduce/trace bugs in subsystems. :(

My point with web apps is that you can target both Chromebooks (technically a "Linux desktop") and any other system that has the Chrome browser installed.

If you're shipping a native B2B application the standard solution I see is to target a specific distro version (Latest RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, etc) and tell customers you only support the default desktop. If they want support for some other weird configuration they can pay extra for that.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

#302

Post by billjings »

xal wrote: post #193

I randomly learned OBS a while ago for doing some twitch streams in the evenings. I'm so glad I did. I run a 6,000 people company during the day and have OBS setup to push into Google Meet. I've done townhall with live on-screen Q/A voting, hosted podcast discussions, done PIP product reviews. I use its video record feature to react to figma prototypes and post the MP4s in the respective channel for discussion. OBS i…

Sadly, OBS is busted for interfacing with Google Meet on MacOS. :( Found this out the hard way Monday.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

#303

Post by shirro »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #40

Is there anyway I can make it pretend to be a webcam so I can use the output as a "camera" source for skype, teams, etc?

On Linux I have used a v4l2loopback kernel module and an obs plugin called v4l2sink. The obs module has not had any development activity for 2 years but seems to work. This a such a useful feature it should be upstreamed for all platforms.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

#304

Post by cawlin »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #262
mkl wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any existing plug-ins for virtual microphone? I want to use OBS'S realtime noise suppression and noise gating in another app (mainly online lecture platform Echo360). I got it working using VoiceMeeter in what seems like a hacky way, but only with high latency so far.

On Mac I use Soundflower to redirect audio between apps. There'a also AULab which can be used for some effects in realtime (e.g. adding reverb and redirecting to built-in audio out). https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower https://www.apple.com/nz/itunes/mastered-for-itunes/

Blackhole is a nice Soundflower alternative that might be appealing for some folks in certain use cases as well: https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

#305

Post by jscheel »

I absolutely love OBS, and use it consistently three times a week for streaming my church’s worship services. It’s an amazing tool, and I’m really thankful for it. That said, if you want to stream on macOS, be ready for some friction. I believe they are working on some issues with updating to metal, which should help quite a bit. Right now, studio mode will drop your FPS by half because OBS doesn’t disable v-sync properly, and window capture is really buggy. If you are wanting to commit to streaming, you may have better luck on a pc right now.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

#306

Post by raegis »

sandov wrote: post #252
jjdredd wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland I missed the point when Wayland took over all the major modern distros. Did supersede Xorg now? I've been using X11 forever and never thought of alternatives.

I think Fedora is the only major distro running Wayland by default. Debian and Ubuntu are still on X11. I think Cannonical shipped 17.10 (or other minor release) with Wayland by default, but subsequent releases reverted to X11.

Debian Buster (which is "stable" now) defaults to Wayland in Gnome, but you can switch to Xorg at the login window, which I had to do this week for screencasting to work as expected.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

#309

Post by fenrirthviti »

asutekku wrote: post #238

I try to love OBS but even the simplest thing (sharing a portion of your screen) requires tons of fiddling to get it work (you need to get the right area with sliders instead of just drawing it on the screen). I guess it’s once again the same old story. In theory, it is a wonderful piece of open source software, but because of the lack of competent designers in the OSS-scene, the UX is awful for casual and first-time…

You can hold alt+drag the red bounding box to crop easily. Screen-region select is on our to-do list, but hasn't been a high priority as it's technically already possible to get the same end result, just not as simple.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

#310

Post by fenrirthviti »

dfee wrote: post #6

There’s one feature of OBS that’s missing for me, and that’s recording sources to separate files. I believe this is called “multicording”, and it something I’ve only found in paid software, like screen flow. Here is the multi year discussion in the OBS forums: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/recording-sources-to-se...

This is effectively our single biggest requested feature right now:

https://ideas.obsproject.com/posts/41/multiple-video-outputs https://ideas.obsproject.com/posts/7/multi-service-streaming... https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/8

Much more details in those links than the forum thread you posted that explains why we haven't done it already. Most of the issue is UI, which is most of what is discussed in that RFC. We need to change the paradigm on how outputs are handled in the UI to support things, and UI is really, really hard. We basically have to throw out a large portion of the application UI and start over to accomplish this, which is a monumental undertaking, and we just haven't had the time or resources to devote to it with all the other higher priority items that keep coming up.

We want it. Users want it. It's definitely not an if, it's a when. Unfortunately, I don't have any timeframe I can give you. OBS still only has one single full-time developer working on it, so resources are limited.

Post reply on HN